GM has recycled tons of plastic that was used to clean up last summer's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, using it to build parts for Chevy Volt electric cars. The company figured out how to turn 100 miles' worth of the plastic booms used to c...

BP may have been able to cap the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, but cleanup efforts are really just beginning. In an interesting intersection between technology and social activism, QR codes could prove instrumental in helping ensure that the G...

Immediately after hearing BP's announcement that no oil was leaking into the Gulf for the first time in nearly three months, we over here at Mash started wondering: What's satirical Twitter account @BPGlobalPR going to do now? Back in May, an anonymo...

This Tuesday at noon, a group of volunteers toting vuvuzelas gathered outside of BP's International Headquarters in London and sounded their barbaric yelps in protest of the way the company is handling the oil spill in the Gulf. We've been covering t...

Babelgum and Ben Huh of The Cheezburger Network have thrown their financial support behind a Kickstarter project that aims to send hundreds of people to BP's international headquarters to blow vuvuzelas in response to the oil giant's handling of the ...

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. Today, the Gulf Coast Benefit will present the Coast to Coast series of concerts in 60 different venues across th...

If we could sum up this past week's top Twitter trends in one word, it would be: Sport. The 2010 World Cup continues to dominate the planet's Twitter streams as contenders are knocked out of the tournament one-by-one, and the NBA Finals came in at nu...

If you don't already know what this week's biggest Twitter trend was (and likely will be for the next three weeks), climb on out from under that rock and have a look at our chart below. Though just about every slot on Twitter's homepage has been domi...

In a recent episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert offered a rather jumbled stream of commentary on social networking wunderkind, Twitter -- from taking The New York Times to task over its recently not-quite-ban on the word "tweet," to raggin...

Greeting card company enGreet has released Gulf Action, a platform that lets users send satirical, oil spill-related greeting cards to political officials to draw attention to the ongoing environmental disaster. Twenty percent of card sales will be d...

U.S. President Barack Obama will address the nation about the Gulf oil spill at 8 p.m. ET today. You'll be able to watch the speech online at WhiteHouse.gov and on the White House YouTube channel. Fifteen minutes after the President's speech, White H...

Who owns the Twitterverse? Political posturers? Rabid international pop music fans? The gadget-crazed Twitterati? If you said all three, you'd be right, at least for this week. As always, our partners in data at What The Trend have provided the compl...

BP has purchased sponsored links that appear at the top of Google and Yahoo's search results for terms like "oil spill" in its attempts to improve its public image in the wake of its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP's PR problems are sever...

Korean boy band Super Junior takes the top spot on this week's list, demonstrating once again that Twitter is truly an international affair. And in classic Twitter form, international diplomatic crises rank right up there with pro sports upsets as th...

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. The far-reaching Gulf oil spill tragedy has left many people feeling powerless to help out. But beyond the offici...

Creative agency Jess3 has developed a Firefox plugin that aims to black out all mentions of BP (British Petroleum) across the web. As one popular tweet espouses, "Want BP to up your browser like they've up the Gulf? Install the Oil Spill Firefox plug...

It may be the end of an era for Twitter trends, as Justin Bieber is nowhere to be found on this week's list. Instead, American Idol champions the chart as the show wrapped its ninth season and crowned some guy the winner of something. Below that, int...

While many of us were focused on the Facebook privacy saga, an ongoing debate about access and transparency in regards to the much more critical problem of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was taking place. British Petroleum (BP) originally announced tha...

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